March 2010

Behind the Tan with Nicole

Before I get started I wanted to let those of you reading my blog for the first time know that I am the founder of Extreme Tan and Smoothies, a tanning salon chain that I founded in 2004 with my wife Lisa. Extreme Tan and Smoothies is based in Pinellas County Florida and serves the [Continue Reading]

23 Ways Blogging has Changed Me

It’s time to plow through another 1000th post request/suggestion as I try to respond to each of the suggestions and post requests made in my “What Should My 1000th Post be About?” post. Today’s response is in regards to Karen from Blazing Minds suggestion that I post how blogging has changed me, man does this [Continue Reading]

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Behind the Scenes of Extreme John

A while back when I wrote my “What Should My 1000th Post Be About?” post I asked for some suggestions on what my 1000th post should be, I ended up getting some excellent suggestions. One of the suggestions that came in was a suggestion for a “Behind the Scenes” type of thing, Klaus from Tech [Continue Reading]

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Celeb Tans.com Copyright Infringement Can Be Costly

Every single time this issue comes up I try to be the “bigger person” and give people a chance to right their wrong, in most cases the infringement isn’t as blatant as it is in this case, so there’s no sense on me holding back on Celeb Tans.com and the owner Aneta. In a lot of cases [Continue Reading]

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Cardiac Kids Foundation of Florida and Insane Limos

Every once in a while as a small business owner I have the opportunity to offer our limousine services or indoor tanning options to support local and national charities. Those of you that do not currently subscribe to my rss feed might have missed the Tan for a Can or Toys for Tans drives that [Continue Reading]

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Gameworks in Tampa..Gone.

Gameworks closed for business in Tampa abruptly yesterday without warning to any of it’s associates or the good peeps in downtown #Tampa. The closing of Gameworks stinks for more reasons then just the obvious fact that now 50+ people are out of a job and half a block in Ybor City is nothing more then [Continue Reading]

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Free Tanning for Your Friends EVERY Friday

Free tanning always seems to excite everyone every time I announce a free tan event or special available at any of our six Extreme Tan and Smoothies indoor tanning salon locations. Just recently while talking various business schemes and plans with my good friend Brendan he mentioned something that instantly made me want to do [Continue Reading]

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Foursquare.. Fun, Dumb and Addicting

Foursquare, Foursquare, what have you done? Staying home use to be so much fun. Now I Foursquare when I’m on the run. Telling everyone where I’m at, it’s really dumb. From the Foursquare newbie to the Mayor.. The worst light ever slayer… O.k. that’s about all your going to get for weird rhymes or any [Continue Reading]

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My Favorite Coffee

In my “Celebrating 1000 Posts” post (sounds wild) I went into some detail about what I would be doing to celebrate reaching the 1000 post milestone. One of the things I intend to do is answer each request that some of you were nice enough to submit in my “What Should I Do for my [Continue Reading]

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Free Spray Tan Clinic

Spray tanning is becoming a craze of it’s own here in little Pinellas County Florida much in part to Extreme Tan and Smoothies sunless spray tan services and mobile airbrush tanning services. In a very short period of time Extreme has spray tanned over 5,000 indoor tanning clients in and around #Tampa Florida and introduced [Continue Reading]

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Celebrating 1000 Posts

It’s a rainy Sunday here in #Tampa Florida and for the first time in over a month I actually have some time to get on here and get a few things done, it feels good to relax and even better that I got out of that nasty mood. I can’t remember exactly when it was [Continue Reading]

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Sunday Smash: 9 of My Favorites from Around the Way

Each week I try to post a few links to excellent blogging tips, business tips and information on social media sites that I came across during the week. I do this for a few reasons one of which is to share blogging information with newbie bloggers or business bloggers that are looking to create a [Continue Reading]

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UFC 111 Recap

UFC 111 is ion the books and it’s official, my UFC 111 predictions sucked as I went 4-3 on the night much of which I will blame on Frank Mir getting in the ring and worrying more about how “calm” he looked vs actually fighting. I will get to that as I get a little [Continue Reading]

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UFC 111 Fight Card and Predictions

I really should have gone with a post title more along the lines of, “Finally My UFC 111 Predictions and Fight Card” based solely on the fact that it’s been a while since I have done my typical UFC predictions. I guess it’s a good thing my boy James holds it down with his UFC [Continue Reading]

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